Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB PURPOSE

The Portfolio GP will provide highquality, flexible clinical care across our four practices and the Lings Bar service, delivering 10 sessions of planned cover each week as part of a 12month proof of concept model. The postholder will act as an integral member of each practice team on the days they are on site, undertaking the full range of GP duties including clinical consultations ,oncall, task management, medical reports, joint injections(where qualified), QOF related activity, and contribution to enhanced services. Attached to a designated host practice for line management and support, the role is designed to strengthen workforce resilience, reduce reliance on locum provision, and enhance continuity of care. The postholder(s) will be expected to demonstrate adaptability, working flexibly across multiple sites to respond to service needs and maintain safe, effective patient care.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical Care

• Provide high quality, patient centred clinical care across multiple practices, including face to face, telephone, and online consultations. Conducting home visits, checking and signing repeat prescriptions, dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation or externally
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols
• Providing counselling and health education
• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• Collecting data for audit purposes
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate
• Undertake on call duties as required, contributing to safe and effective sameday care.
• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate(Lings Bar service)
• Manage clinical tasks, results, and workflow in line with practice protocols
• Complete medical reports, insurance forms, and other administrative clinical work
• Deliver joint injections and other minor procedures within scope of competence
• Support QOF delivery, clinical audits, and achievement of practice and PCN targets
• Contribute to enhanced services and local service specifications as required
• In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care

Cross-Site Flexibility

• Work flexibly across four practices and the Lings Bar service, adapting to differing systems, teams, and operational needs.
• Provide planned cover for annual leave, sickness, and workforce gaps to reduce reliance on locum provision.
• Participate in a phased induction to ensure safe and effective integration across all sites.

Teamwork and Collaboration

• Act as a fully integrated member of each practice team on the days worked, contributing to MDT discussions, clinical meetings, and shared decision making.
• Build effective working relationships with clinical and nonclinical colleagues across all sites.
• Engage with the host practice and Medical Director for line management, pastoral support, and professional development.

Professional Standards

• Maintain GMC registration, revalidation requirements, and evidence of ongoing CPD.
• Work in accordance with practice policies, clinical governance frameworks, and safeguarding procedures.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuous improvement, patient safety, and high clinical standards.

Additional

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
• A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
• Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

For more information please see the supporting documents

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Qualifications

Essential

• Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
• Please provide your registration number of your GMC professional registration.

Personal qualities

Essential

• Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Primary Integrated Community Services

Address

Hama Medical Centre

Nottingham Road

Kimberley

Nottingham

NG16 2NB

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://picsnhs.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities to be undertaken by members of the practice administration team may include any or all of the items in the following list. Duties may be varied from time to time under the direction of the Office Supervisor/Practice Manager, dependent on current and evolving practice workload and staffing levels:

• Maintaining and monitoring the practice appointments system

• Processing personal and telephone requests for appointments, visits and telephone consultations, and ensuring callers are directed to the appropriate healthcare professional

• Processing and distributing incoming (and outgoing) mail

• Signposting

• Taking messages and passing on information

• Filing and retrieving paperwork

• Processing repeat prescriptions in accordance with practice guidelines

• Computer data entry/data allocation and collation; processing and recording information in accordance with practice procedures

• Initiating contact with and responding to requests from patients, other team member and associated healthcare agencies and providers

• Clearing and re-stocking of consulting rooms as required

• Providing clerical assistance to practice staff as required from time to time, including word/data processing, filing, photocopying and scanning

• Provision of refreshments for staff and visitors as required and keeping the kitchen area clean and tidy

• Keeping the reception area, notice-boards and leaflet dispensers tidy and free from obstructions and clutter

• Booking long term condition reviews

• Pharmacy first referrals.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Qualifications

Essential

• Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Primary Integrated Community Services

Address

Whyburn Medical Practice

Curtis Street

Hucknall

Nottinghamshire

NG15 7JE

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://picsnhs.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• The post holder is responsible for ensuring that the residents and care home managers in within the PCN locality receive assistance in accessing health care interventions by signposting to the most appropriate person to provide care

• The post holder is responsible for consulting and collaborating with other Health Care professionals and specialists across both primary, secondary, social care and the voluntary care sectors

• To take a significant role in the assessment and treatment of patients in care homes with complex illnesses.

• To confidently consult with patients/families/carers to determine the needs of individuals and develop and review care plans to support care.

• To confidently make autonomous decisions following assessments and ensuring that information is collaboratively communicated back to the Senior PCN Clinical Care Home Nurse / GP colleagues in a timely and professional manner

• To lead in the weekly home rounds and have the ability and knowledge to make decisions regards appropriateness of onward referrals and hold others to account for their delivery of actions.

• Make recommendations regarding patient management in accordance with Local and National guidelines within the management of the older population.

• To develop the evidence, base for health needs led service planning, delivery and commissioning.

• To develop / prescribe specialised programmes of care / care packages for all patients referred to the team, monitor and evaluate effectiveness of implementation. This includes developing training programmes and providing guidance to all clinicians both professional and non-professional across the health community.

• Demonstrate a good understanding of clinical governance and risk management and apply to work effectively alerting any risks and benefits when developing services and practice in new areas.

• To participate in research and service development.

• Keep abreast of new developments in treatment and technology.

• Promote the philosophy of patient centred care and with care homes facilitate a forum for patients' carers to reflect and feedback issues and concerns.

• Communications across the MDT is a critical element for this role. Information will be shared across providers, and the post holder will support the voice of the residents and care homes as equal members of the MDT.

• With colleagues in the team and utilising and interpreting data, to support service improvement for care homes and primary care, as well as understanding the demands on urgent and emergency services to reduce avoidable activity where possible. Data and local intelligence will be utilised to develop and influence new ways of working to improve patient care, the resilience of primary care and system partners.

• The post holder will be supported by the Senior PCN Clinical Care Home Nurse, named care home GPs and the PCN GP clinical lead, and accountable to the PCN clinical director.

• The post holder will promote new ways of working promoting the use of digital technology, such as remote consultations, MS Teams MDTs, care home WhatsApp group and check ins.

• The post holder will be required to work with team colleagues to evidence the impacts of the team and provide data monitoring to further shape the role and delivery of the Care Home DES and LES within the PCN

Other key relationships:

• Primary Integrated Community Services Ltd Specialist Teams

• PCN Lead Care Home GP & Clinical Directors

• Care Homeowners, managers and staff

• GPs CCG and PCNs

• Community Geriatrician

• Secondary Care Consultants

• Community Matrons

• Community Therapy & Nursing Services

• Locality District & Social Services Departments

• Hospital Clinical Specialists

• Voluntary Sector

• CQC

Professional Leadership and Development

• To be responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through Continuing Professional Development activities and to participate in the review and appraisal process.

• To always adhere to the individual Professional code of conduct and practice.

• To reflect on own practice individually and/or through regular clinical supervision.

• To participate in any relevant training/course/conferences to maintain own professional development.

• To maintain, develop and disseminate specialist knowledge of evidence-based practice.

• To critically evaluate own work using evidence-based projects, audits and outcome measures.

• To work autonomously as a Clinical Care Home nurse within professional and PICS guidelines, policies and procedures.

Communication and Relationship Skills

• Demonstrate good communication skills in providing advice, empowerment, facilitation, influence, motivation and counselling.

• Manage complex communication issues that may arise between differing health and social care professionals.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the need to involve patients and carers in decision making, offering them informed choices, respecting their views.

• Demonstrate the ability to recognise barriers to understanding that can be encountered with elderly frail patients, those without English as their first language, patients with disabilities and those with mental health difficulties such as dementia, anxiety, clinical depression or personality disorders.

• Seek out different styles and methods of communicating to assist longer term needs and aims.

• The nature of some communication can be unpredictable and can be of an urgent high priority nature: this can therefore be responsible for impacting into time allocated towards other necessary tasks.

• As a senior skilled clinician, manage difficult and challenging conversations, providing clarity and information to seek a mutually agreeable position between parties.

Knowledge, Training and Experience

• This post demands a range of developed skills from a wide and variant background, experience and a knowledge base underpinned with a proven track record and/or an academically scrutinised knowledge base.

• Proven Professional Development, a profile that post registration experience and knowledge relating to the role

• To have the ability to contribute to complex care co-ordination, proactively manage complex long-term conditions.

• Support self-care, management enabling independence through concordance and using good consultation skills.

• Dealing with patients who have cognitive impairment and understand mental well-being.

• Dealing with care home staff where English is not the first language to promote education and training.

• Offer good consultation skills and develop specialist knowledge within the older persons setting and generalist knowledge to undertake comprehensive assessment of health and psychosocial care needs of patients with complex disease, including holistic assessment, gathering and interpreting information, performing tests and analysing results.

• Using clinical outcomes for patients by enabling them to function independently by increasing their choice to remain in their own care home setting and reduce the need for inappropriate hospital admissions/readmission.

• Work closely with the primary care clinical team to facilitate the understanding and concordance of medicines with patients and carers.

• Analytical judgement underpinned with specialist knowledge and experience is used to develop evidenced based holistic personal care plan with patients, carers, relatives and health care professionals based on a full assessment of medical, nursing, and social care needs.

• Work collaboratively with colleagues using databases to actively seek patients who will benefit from clinical cases management techniques to avoid unplanned hospital admissions and reduce the length of hospital admissions.

• Facilitating the care home managed patients discharge from hospital, by co-ordinating care services to be delivered within primary care working in partnership with secondary care, primary care and social service colleagues.

• Work proactively with care homes to identify patients and their families to improve end of life care by early identification of prognostic indicators and refer in a timely manner to the Palliative Care teams, ensuring that choices are reflected in personalised care plans and are communicated with others involved in their care.

• Provide evidence based written information, ensuring easy access to advice and information for patients and their carers.

• Acts a role model demonstrating high standards of care

• Provides specialist education and training to other professionals involved in patient care

• Participate in the education, induction programmes and support meetings for other professional staff.

• Actively participate in other multi-professional meetings, acting as the patient advocate.

• Monitor own performance by reflective practice and identify training and educational needs.

• Contributes to the identification of service goals and appreciates how this links in with performance targets and quality indicators.

• Engage in local and organisational audit.

• Regular self-direction of learning needs.

• Maintain up to date mandatory training.

For more information please see supporting documents.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
• Please provide your registration number of your NMC professional registration.

Experience

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Primary Integrated Community Services

Address

Arrow Health PCN

Nottinghamshire

NG3 5LB

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://picsnhs.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• To participate in the overall strategy for development and delivery of the Enhanced Health in Care Homes service across Newark PCN.

• Will lead in the weekly home rounds and have the ability and knowledge to make decisions regards appropriateness of onward referrals and to hold themselves and others to account for their delivery of actions from the home round.

• To take a significant role in the holistic assessment and treatment of patients in care homes with complex illnesses. To confidently consult with patients/families/carers to determine the needs of individuals and develop Respect forms to support care.

• To confidently make autonomous decisions following assessments and ensuring that information is collaboratively communicated back to GP colleagues in a timely and professional manner

• To make recommendations regarding patient management in accordance with Local and National guidelines

• Responsibility for consulting and collaborating with other health care professionals and specialists across both primary, secondary, social care and the voluntary care sectors.

• Demonstrate a good understanding of clinical governance and risk management and apply to work effectively alerting any risks and benefits when developing services and practice in new areas.

• To facilitate clinical supervision to clinicians who are working within the service and to provide mentorship for clinicians developing advanced skills.

• Keep abreast of new developments in treatment and technology.

• Communications across the MDT is a critical element for this role. Information will be shared across providers, and the post holder will support the voice of the residents and care homes as equal members of the MDT.

• Utilising and interpreting data, to support service improvement for care homes and primary care, as well as understanding the demands on urgent and emergency services to reduce avoidable activity where possible.

• As a senior clinician there may be a requirement to support local and system wide meetings as appropriate and have a visible presence across the care homes, GP practices and Integrated Care Board work streams which have relevance for care homes in the absence of the clinical lead for the service.

• The post holder is responsible for ensuring that the residents and care home managers within Newark PCN locality receive assistance in accessing health care interventions by signposting to the most appropriate person to provide care.

Other key relationships:

• PCN Clinical Directors and Care Home Lead

• Care home owners, managers and staff

• GPs working in aligned practices

• Community Geriatrician

• Secondary care consultants and specialist nurses

• Community matrons

• Community therapy and community nursing services

• Locality district and Social Services Departments

• Voluntary Sector

• CQC

• Quality monitoring team

Professional Leadership and Development

• To be responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through Continuing Professional Development activities and to participate in the review and appraisal process.

• To adhere to the individual Professional code of conduct and practice at all times.

• To reflect on own practice individually and through regular clinical supervision.

• To participate in any relevant training/course/conferences to maintain own professional development.

• To maintain, develop and disseminate specialist knowledge of evidence-based practice.

• To critically evaluate own work through the use of evidence-based projects, audits and outcome measures.

• To work autonomously as a Clinical Care Homes Lead within professional and PICS guidelines, policies and procedures.

Communication and Relationship Skills

• Demonstrate advanced communication skills in providing advice, empowerment, facilitation, influence, motivation and counselling.

• Manage complex communication issues that may arise between differing health and social care professionals.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the need to involve patients and carers in decision making, offering them informed choices, respecting their views.

• Seek out different styles and methods of communicating to assist longer term needs and aims.

• The nature of some communication can be unpredictable and can be of an urgent high priority nature: this can therefore be responsible for impacting into time allocated towards other necessary tasks.

• As a senior clinician manage difficult and challenging conversations, providing clarity and information to seek a mutually agreeable position between parties.

Knowledge, Training and Experience

• This post demands a range of developed skills from a wide and varied background, experience and a broad yet deep knowledge base underpinned with a proven track record and/or an academically scrutinised knowledge base.

• Working with care home staff where English is not the first language to promote education and training.

• Analytical judgement underpinned with specialist knowledge and experience is used to develop evidenced based holistic personal care plan with patients, carers, relatives and health care professionals based on a full assessment of medical, nursing, and social care needs.

• Provide evidence based written information, ensuring easy access to advice and information for patients and their carers.

• Acts a role model demonstrating high standards of care and providing clinical leadership to others.

• Provides specialist education and training to other professionals involved in patient care.

• Participate in the education, induction programmes and support meetings for other professional staff.

• Actively participate in other multi-professional meetings, acting as the patient advocate.

• Monitor own performance by reflective practice and identify training and educational needs.

• Contributes to the identification of service goals and appreciates how this links in with performance targets and quality indicators.

• Engage in local and organisational audit.

• Regular self-direction of learning needs.

• Maintain up to date mandatory training records.

Clinical Governance

• To maintain accurate and comprehensive documentation in line with legal, professional and organisational requirements. Ensure all information regarding each patient related contact is recorded within SystmOne records.

• Disseminate research and audit findings through presentation to multi-professional groups and publication.

• Contribute to the development and implementation of policies, procedures and guidelines relevant to own area of work, which may have an impact across the organisation.

• Promote patient and public involvement activities in the specialist area, leading to service improvement.

• Actively promote peoples equality, diversity and rights.

• Assist in the investigation of complaints and clinical incidents related to the Enhanced Health in Care Homes service and support learning that takes place as a result of complaints and incidents.

• Monitor health, safety and security of self and others and promote best practice.

• Identify risk issues that impact on the patients health or social are needs.

• Take appropriate action to the significance of the risk and consistent with protection procedures, applying protection procedures, following lone worker procedure.

• Demonstrate effective team working inclusive of all relevant professionals.

• Report all accidents / incidents, and all ill health, failings in equipment and / or environment to line managers.

Professional Development / Personal Performance.

• Identify learning needs, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of education to meet identified need.

• Establish own support mechanisms to enable structured reflection, including clinical supervision, development of supportive networks mentoring and coaching.

• Participate in and undertake clinical supervision of colleagues on an individual or group.

• Participate in the divisional appraisal system and demonstrate the achievement of agreed personal objectives.

• Non-medical prescribing qualification or willingness to undertake.

Education

• Identify the potential benefits of, and participating in, educational programmes for patients and their relatives/carers.

• Participate in the education of pre and post registered professionals and curriculum development where appropriate.

• Address specific health targets e.g. NHS Plan, National Service Frameworks related to own area of practice through education.

• Ensure own compliance and compliance of others with regard to mandatory training and individual health professional requirements.

Person Specification

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Experience

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.

Qualifications

Essential

• Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
• Please provide your registration number of your NMC professional registration.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Primary Integrated Community Services

Address

Newark PCN

Nottingham

NG24 4XG

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://picsnhs.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking, and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.
• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice.
• Disease management protocols.
• Providing counselling and health education.
• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate.
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Collecting data for audit purposes.
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible).
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.
• In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing,confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
• A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
• Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Confidentiality

The post holder will:

• In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & Safety

The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
• Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
• Providing advice on the correct and safe management of the specimens process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements
• Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and patients.
• Management of the full range of infection control procedures in both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual infectious circumstances)
• Hand hygiene standards for self and others
• Managing directly all incidents of accidental exposure
• Management and advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice
• Active observation of current working practices across the practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses/training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible person
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of infection control and patient processes
• Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that proper use is made of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc., and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager
• Safe management of sharps use storage and disposal
• Maintenance of own clean working environment
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management
• Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
• Keeping own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards/risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with responsible managers
• Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually)
• Correct waste and instrument management, including handling, segregation, and container use
• Maintenance of sterile environments
• Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Equality and Diversity

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development

In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication

The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers
• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Contribution to the Implementation of Services

The post-holder will:

• Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
• Participate in audit where appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
• Please provide your registration number of your GMC professional registration.

Experience

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Primary Integrated Community Services

Address

Hama Medical Centre

11 Nottingham Road

Kimberley

Nottingham

NG16 2NB

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://picsnhs.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical:

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion

• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation

• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness

• Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols

• Providing counselling and health education

• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate

• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards

• Collecting data for audit purposes

• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)

• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

• In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

Additional

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety

• A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice

• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation

• Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records

• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data

• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Confidentiality

The post holder will:

• In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

• In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential

• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & Safety

The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines

• Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines

• Providing advice on the correct and safe management of the specimens process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements

• Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and patients.

• Management of the full range of infection control procedures in both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual infectious circumstances)

• Hand hygiene standards for self and others

• Managing directly all incidents of accidental exposure

• Management and advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice

• Active observation of current working practices across the practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses/training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible person

• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process

• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of infection control and patient processes

• Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that proper use is made of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc., and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager

• Safe management of sharps use, storage and disposal

• Maintenance of own clean working environment

• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management

• Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised

• Keeping own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards/risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with responsible managers

• Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually)

• Correct waste and instrument management, including handling, segregation, and container use

• Maintenance of sterile environments

• Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Equality and Diversity

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation

• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development

In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development

• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk

• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision

• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance

• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs

• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication

The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members

• Communicate effectively with patients and carers

• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Contribution to the Implementation of Services

The post-holder will:

• Apply practice policies, standards and guidance

• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work

• Participate in audit where appropriate.

Person Specification

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Qualifications

Essential

• Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
• Please provide your registration number of your GMC professional registration.

Experience

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Primary Integrated Community Services

Address

Saxon Cross Surgery

Church Street

Stapleford

Nottinghamshire

NG9 8DA

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://picsnhs.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

• KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• You will be part of a wider team of Pharmacy staff, supporting the care homes, while being supported by our Clinical Lead who is on the PICS leadership team.

• Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations

• Carry out medicines optimisations tasks including effective medicine administration, supporting medication reviews and medicine reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.

• Support the Clinical Pharmacists in Structured Medication Review, ie. Organise necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR

• Provide expertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and talking local health inequalities

• Manage shared care protocols and liaise with Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients

• Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally

• Promote Electronic Repeat Dispensing to patients

• Promote online ordering through the NHS App

• Support practice reception teams in streamlining prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and Clinical Pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests

• Attending weekly Care Home Ward Rounds with the GPs, face to face and virtually.

• Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP Practices

• Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF, IIF, and other contracts

• Support the PCN in reviewing and developing practice policies for CQC requirements

• Carry out housekeeping while in patient records e.g. dose optimisation, syncing medicines etc

• Conduct prescribing audits (as requested by Senior Clinical Pharmacist)

• To work at one or more of the 4 practices, and allocated care homes within the PCN

Additional Responsibilities

• Promote our culture of equality and diversity

• Ensure our principles of openness, transparency and candor are upheld

• Continue annual training and CPD to maintain good practices, especially within Safeguarding and IPC.

Professional Development / Personal Performance.

• Identify learning needs, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of education to meet identified need.

• Establish own support mechanisms to enable structured reflection, including clinical supervision, development of supportive networks mentoring and coaching.

• Participate in and undertake clinical supervision of colleagues on an individual or group

• Participate in the Divisional appraisal System and demonstrate the achievement of agreed personal objectives.

Physical and Mental Skills

• The post holder should be physically fit for the role with the necessary keyboard and IT skills.

• The post holder would be expected to coordinate delivery of care in line with the pathway for heart failure patients, performing comprehensive assessment of patient nursing needs, plan, implement and evaluate care delivery according to changing health care needs.

• Required to communicate across the health community and with patients / carers where the nature of the information given may be sensitive and could be disputed.

• The post holder should be empathetic and skilled in listening, persuasion and negotiation, and recognizes Care, Compassion, Courage, Competency, Communication, and Commitment in their role.

Effort and Environment

Physical Effort

• Frequent long periods of time spent writing up patient related information within agreed time limits. There is a need for speed and accuracy. This is a continuous requirement throughout each day.

• Prolonged periods of time spent in a sitting position at a computer screen when answering the telephone and writing clinical information in patients notes at the same time.

• Infrequent sitting or standing in a restricted position eg: crouching or kneeling to deliver care. Infrequent moderate / occasional intense effort for several short periods.

• Treatment sessions may require the post holder to undertake moving and handling tasks with the patient which may or may not involve using specialist equipment. Occasional requirement to transport bulky equipment to patients homes.

Mental Effort

• Prolonged periods of concentration are required frequently throughout each shift when prioritising referrals and allocating work to other team members. This can often involve changing from one task to another and back to original task with several interruptions in between.

• Prioritising work is essential, as often many tasks are required to be undertaken simultaneously. The post holder is required to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

• Concentration on reading and writing reports is necessary. Deadlines are applicable for multi-professional meetings.

• Concentration for periods of time when working and discussing health issues with patients, families and carers.

Emotional Effort

• Some patients will have complex needs. Some will have problems that can cause stress for the post holder.

• The post holder can also be faced with distressing circumstances and emotionally demanding situations, which will come about occasionally when dealing clients and their families. There can be frustration when patients do not accept or action health plans.

Working Conditions

• To function effectively across a variety of environments e.g.: GP Practice, patients homes and care homes.

• The post holder can be a lone worker.

• Occasionally the post holder may be exposed to aggressive verbal/physical aggression from patients, relatives and other health and social care professionals over the telephone or face to face

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
• Please provide your registration number of your GPhC professional registration.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.

Experience

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Primary Integrated Community Services

Address

Ashfield North Primary Care Network

Nottingham

NG17 1JW

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://picsnhs.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical

• Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.

• Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.

• As determined by the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies.

• Support the Clinical Pharmacist in Structure Medication Reviews (SMR) i.e. organise necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR.

• Provide expertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.

• Manage shared care protocols and liaise with Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients.

• Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally.

Technical and administration

• Support the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.

• Implement efficient ordering and return processes and reducing medication wastage.

• Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).

• Promotion of Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering.

• Develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the multi-disciplinary team to support integration across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care and mental health.

• Support practice Reception Teams in streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and Clinical Pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.

• Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.

• Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services.

• Support the PCN in reviewing and developing practice policies for CQC requirements

General

The post holder will:

• Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity. The post holder must be aware of and committed to the Equality and Diversity policies of the appointing GP Federation and comply with all the requirements of these policies and actively promote Equality and Diversity issues relevant to the post.

• Ensure the principles of openness, transparency and candor are observed and upheld in all working practices.

• The post holder will have, or acquire through training provided by the organisation, the appropriate level of safeguarding and knowledge, skills and practice required for the post and be aware of and comply with the organisations safeguarding protection policies and procedures.

• Ensure that any infection prevention and control issues are reported to the Line Manager/Infection Prevention and Control

Equality and diversity

The post-holder will support equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers & colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation

• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional development

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development

• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work

Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.

• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, directly or under supervision.

• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.

• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.

• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

Indemnity

• All Pharmacy Technicians must work within their competencies and have professional indemnity for their role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
• Please provide your registration number of your GPhC professional registration.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Experience

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Primary Integrated Community Services

Address

Nottingham West PCN

Nottingham

NG9 1GA

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://picsnhs.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Core duties

• Take referrals from a wide range of staff working within GP Practices and multi-disciplinary teams within Primary Care Networks

• Provide personalised support to individuals, their families and carers to take control of their wellbeing, live independently and improve their health outcomes. Develop trusting relationships by giving people time and focus on what matters to me. Take a holistic approach, based on the persons priorities and the wider determinants of health. Co-produce a personalised support plan to improve health and wellbeing, introducing or reconnecting people to community groups and statutory services.

• The role will require managing and prioritising your own caseload, in accordance with the needs, priorities and any priority support required by individuals on the caseload

• It is vital that you have a strong awareness and understanding of when it is appropriate or necessary to refer people back to other health professionals/agencies, when what the person needs is beyond the scope of the link worker role e.g., when there is a mental health need requiring a qualified practitioner.

• Draw on and increase the strengths and capacities of local communities, enabling local VCSE organisations and community groups to receive social prescribing referrals. Ensure they are supported, have basic safeguarding processes for vulnerable individuals and can provide opportunities for the person to develop friendships, a sense of belonging, and build knowledge, skills and confidence.

Referrals

• Promoting social prescribing, its role in self-management, and the wider determinants of health.

• Build relationships with key staff in GP practices within the local Primary Care Network (PCN), attending relevant meetings, becoming part of the wider network team, giving information and feedback on social prescribing.

• Work in partnership with all local agencies to raise awareness of social prescribing and how partnership working can reduce pressure on statutory services, improve health outcomes and enable a holistic approach to care.

• Seek regular feedback about the quality of service and impact of social prescribing on patients.

Provide personalised support

• Complete assessments via the telephone and provide support which may include meeting people on a one-to-one basis, making home visits where appropriate within organisations policies and procedures. Give people time to tell their stories and focus on what matters to me. Build trust with the person, providing non- judgemental support, respecting diversity and lifestyle choices.

• Help people identify the wider issues that impact on their health and wellbeing, such as debt, poor housing, being unemployed, loneliness, caring responsibilities alongside prevention approaches.

• Work with the person, their families and carers and consider how they can all be supported through social prescribing.

• Where appropriate, physically introduce people to community groups, activities and statutory services, ensuring they are comfortable. Follow up to ensure they are happy, able to engage

Work collectively with all local partners

• Work with commissioners and local partners to identify unmet needs within the community and identify gaps in community provision.

• Attend INTs and MDTs to aid patient care and collaborative working

• Encourage people who have been connected to community support through social prescribing to volunteer and give their time freely to others, in order to build their skills and confidence, and strengthen community resilience.

• Forge strong links with local VCSE organisations, community and neighbourhood level groups, utilising their networks and building on whats already available to create a map or menu of community groups and assets.

Data capture

• Work sensitively with people, their families and carers to capture key information, enabling tracking of the impact of social prescribing on their health and wellbeing.

• Encourage people, their families and carers to provide feedback and to share their stories about the impact of social prescribing on their lives.

• Support referral agencies to provide appropriate information about the person they are referring.

• Work closely with GP practices within the PCN to ensure that social prescribing referral codes are inputted to SystmOne and that the persons use of the NHS can be tracked, adhering to data protection legislation and data sharing agreements with the clinical commissioning group (CCG).

Clinical Governance

• Identify risk issues that impact on peoples health or social care needs.

• Take appropriate action to the significance of the risk and consistent with protection procedures, applying protection procedures, following lone worker procedure.

• Demonstrate effective team working inclusive of all relevant professionals.

• Report all accidents / incidents, and all ill health, failings in equipment and / or environment to line managers.

• Contribute towards audit and data collection as required

• Be accountable for their own caseload within their area of responsibility and seek support as required.

Professional development

• Work with your line manager to undertake continual personal and professional development, taking an active part in reviewing and developing the roles and responsibilities.

• Adhere to organisational policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety.

Miscellaneous

• Work as part of the team to seek feedback, continually improve the service and patient experience.

• Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner.

• Duties may vary from time to time, without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.

Experience

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Primary Integrated Community Services

Address

Mansfield North PCN

Nottingham

NG19 8BL

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://picsnhs.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a GP working within a Hospice and palliative care you will provide the following:

• Deliver day-to-day medical care to hospice in-patients and patients accessing other Specialist Palliative Care services.

• Provide clinical leadership, education and development to the Advanced Clinical Practitioners alongside the resident consultant.

• Provide leadership and participate as a member at the weekly in-patient multidisciplinary team meeting.

• Out-of-hours responsibilities as required/ involvement in a wider on call roster.

• Cover for colleagues annual leave and other authorised absences.

• Any responsibility which relates to a special interest.

• Educational and clinical supervision of trainee doctors, advanced clinical practitioners.

• Training and supervision of Nurse Independent Prescribers.

• Participate in clinical audit, quality improvement projects and clinical governance processes.

• Support research activity.

• Comply with Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements as stipulated by the Royal Colleges.

• To keep a portfolio of evidence, to have an annual appraisal and write a personal development plan (PDP) in line with GMC revalidation policies and procedures.

• Support and assist in the achievement of Hospice strategy and objectives.

Proposed Job Plan

• The initial job plan will be agreed flexibly with the successful candidate and will be subject to negotiation and review. Three months after commencement, the job plan will be reviewed and agreed between the appointee and the Director of Clinical Services. This will be a prospective agreement that sets out the duties, responsibilities and objectives for the coming year, and will be reviewed annually. It should cover all aspects of a GPs professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities. In addition, it should include personal objectives, including details of their link to wider service objectives, and details of the support required by the consultant to fulfil the job plan and the objectives.
• A shared office will be provided with some secretarial support and informational technology facilities. Time off in Lieu will be available for any additional weekend or out of hours work, as agreed by line manager.

On call availability

• Out of hours activity is currently delivered by Derbyshire Health United (DHU) practitioners who then access on call consultants via South Yorkshire or Nottinghamshire. This will be reviewed and developed in line with service need. It is possible that an on call requirement may become necessary in the future.

Supporting Programmed Activities

• The role will require oversight of clinical education for Palliative and End of Life Care across Bassetlaw Hospice and to colleagues in partner organisations, to ensure services are educated and fit for purpose. The appointee is expected to participate in teaching in collaboration with the education lead.
• The post holder will be encouraged to contribute to research activities at the hospice and contribute to audit and quality improvement projects.
• The appointee is expected to take part in continuing professional medical education; study leave is provided and funding is available on application.

For more information, please see the supporting documents

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Full registration with the UK General Medical Council with a licence to practise
• MRCP

Desirable

• Higher qualifications relevant to Palliative Medicine eg M.D., MSc, Ph.D
• Training or qualification in medical education

Experience

Essential

• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of Specialist Palliative Care problems
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
• Ability to teach clinical and non-clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates
• Supervision of doctors in training and non-training grade posts.
• Supervision of trainee ACPs and CNSs

Desirable

• Experience of working within the Bassetlaw area to have an understanding of wider services and the impact on patient care and journey.
• Training or qualification in medical education
• Evidence of engagement with and skills in research
• Evidence of attendance on an Advanced Communication Skills Course

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Ability to manage and lead a multidisciplinary Specialist Palliative Care Team
• Willingness to work within Bassetlaw Hospice performance framework and targets
• Experience in clinical governance and delivering the highest standards of clinical quality and performance
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, colleagues
• Evidence of ability to work in a team and delegate appropriately
• Good interpersonal skills
• Evidence of good personal organisation, including time management
• Work within a multidisciplinary team, both as a member and as a leader
• Enquiring and critical approach to work
• Commitment to Continuing Professional Development
• Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national level
• IT Skills
• Able to travel within the catchment area

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Primary Integrated Community Services

Address

Bassetlaw Hospice

North Rd

Retford

Nottinghamshire

DN22 7XF

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://picsnhs.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, visiting patients at home, checking, and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion.
• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
• Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice.
• Disease management protocols.
• Providing counselling and health education.
• Admitting or discharging patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate.
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.
• Collecting data for audit purposes.
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible).
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate.
• In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing,confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
• A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
• Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records
• Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
• Attending training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Confidentiality

The post holder will:

• In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & Safety

The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
• Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
• Providing advice on the correct and safe management of the specimens process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements
• Correct personal use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ensuring correct use of PPE by others, advising on appropriate circumstances for use by clinicians, staff and patients.
• Management of the full range of infection control procedures in both routine and extraordinary circumstances (e.g. pandemic or individual infectious circumstances)
• Hand hygiene standards for self and others
• Managing directly all incidents of accidental exposure
• Management and advice relating to infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols across the practice
• Active observation of current working practices across the practice in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses/training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate to the responsible person
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of infection control and patient processes
• Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that proper use is made of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc., and that these are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate to the responsible manager
• Safe management of sharps use storage and disposal
• Maintenance of own clean working environment
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management
• Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
• Keeping own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards/risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with responsible managers
• Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually)
• Correct waste and instrument management, including handling, segregation, and container use
• Maintenance of sterile environments
• Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Equality and Diversity

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development

In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication

The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers
• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Contribution to the Implementation of Services

The post-holder will:

• Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
• Participate in audit where appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
• Please provide your registration number of your GMC professional registration.

Experience

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Primary Integrated Community Services

Address

Hama Medical Centre

11 Nottingham Road

Kimberley

Nottingham

NG16 2NB

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://picsnhs.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)